Richmond Spokes, the bike shop where he works, has no boss and no owner. It is just months away from becoming a fully-fledged worker-owned co-operative, where all six employees have an equal share in the company and an equal say in how it is run. That sense of power and purpose is something Mr Johnson never had at his previous job doing computer repairs. “The computer store was just another job,” he says. “Every day when I was going to work for the man, I had to keep repairing my bike just to get to the job. I thought, why not just focus on fixing the bikes.

Following the success of this summer's Eastern conference, the bi-annual 2013 Western Workers Co-op Conference is hot on its heels. The September 2nd through 4th event will be held at the worker-owned Breitenbush Hotsprings in Detroit, Oregon.

Promoting Worker-Owned Cooperatives as a CED Empowerment Strategy: A Case Study of Colors and Lawyering in Support of Participatory Decision-Making and Meaningful Social Change. Submitted by Joe on Wed, ...

By CUNY CED. Pittsburgh, PA is the home of a new worker cooperative, the 'Clean and Green Laundry.' The industrial-scale cleaning firm was brought into being by a joint effort of the United Steel Workers and the City ...

Although the ratio for each cooperative varies, it is worker-owners within that cooperative who decide through a democratic vote what these ratios should be. Thus, if a general manager of a cooperative has a ratio of 9:1, it is ...

This is the first paper to analyze all the different varieties of worker-owned firms as well as conventional firms in terms of how they parse the bundle of rights in a firm. It also popularized the basic idea that the membership rights ...

Worker-Owned Home Care Cooperatives are First in their Industry to be ...CSRwire.com (press release)The Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) and Home Care Associates (HCA) of Philadelphia, two worker-owned, cooperative home care...

Why I Want to be a Worker-Owner… AgainCo-Operative News (blog)To me, it is important that Equal Exchange is itself organized as a cooperative, living the values of democracy that it values in its suppliers.

SHIFT CHANGE visits thriving cooperative businesses in the U.S. and Spain; sharing on-the-ground experiences, lessons, and observations from the worker-owners on the front lines of the new economy. SHIFT CHANGE ...

Electric Co-op TodayAlabama Co-op Worker Saves LivesElectric Co-op TodayIn his 21 years at the Summerdale, Ala., electric cooperative, Grant, now a field services technician, has had three life-and-death encounters with members during routine...

12 Companies Considered 'Best for the World' Forbes Cooperative Home Care Associates in the Bronx, New York, is the nation's largest worker-owned cooperative. It provides high-quality home care services to the elderly and disabled.

This is the first paper to analyze all the different varieties of worker-owned firms as well as conventional firms in terms of how they parse the bundle of rights in a firm. It also popularized the basic idea that the membership rights ...

Some CWCF members have asked that CWCF better play the role of intermediarybetween worker co-ops on the ground and the international associations of workerco-ops in which we are involved: CICOPA (world level); CICOPA-Americas for thecontinent, and...

The International Summit (held October 8-11, 2012) was a mixed experience for a worker co-operator like me. As someone profoundly committed to the values, principles and democratic nature of the co-operative movement, I found it relatively challenging...

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